Camera.



A. L. RICHARDSON.

CAMERA.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. II 1908.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909 /NVENT0/7 M J 0 F mm 6 mm d i Specification of Letters Patent. Eatented Aug. 1909-,

Application filed September li -190B Serial No. 452,657.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR -L. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Melrose, in'the county of Roosevelt and Territory of New Mexico, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement 1n Cameras,'of WlllCh. the followlng 1s a specification.

This invention relates to" improvements photographic, apparatus and is applicable chlefly to cameras used in photographic studios for the pur *ose" of making portraits;

also it may be use with other cameras such; 3 as those used for taking-landscapes or' for cu ar disk or supporting plate G and mount 1 .the lens directly upon said supporting plate,

other outdoor photographs= object-of my invention is to provide a convenient device which may beattached to the frontboard of a camera and in the use "of which the inconvenience of the necessity of an individual front board for each differ? ent size of lens to be used, is obviated.

A further object of my invention is to provide a dev i'cain'the use'of which, a single shutter of sufficient sizeto accommodatethe' largest sized lens may also be used-for lenses of small size without necessitating the removal of the front boards My invention'is illustrated in th e accom igure 1 is' a ront view of a camera with? my invention applied thereto. 'Fig.-- 2.is a side View of Fig. 1, a portion of a'camei'a structure being broken away; F ig. f3""i's a" View of the front board of the camera showing a shutter attached to its rear side. Fig. 4 1s a centralsection through the lens-supporting plate.

In the use of the ordinary-portraitcamera in photographic galleries or studios,jvarious sized lenses are required for the different purposes tp which the camera is put. It

1-45. necessaryltdjchange one of the lenses the is customary'to' provide the camera with a number of. front'boar'ds each having on its front sidea lens and on its rear side a shutto? corresponding w' ith the lens. When it is front *board is 'removed and another one bearing the particular lens desired is substituted in its place. Thisnecessitates the pro-' vision of a number of front boards for the camera as well as a number of shutters. As

these] shutters are expensive it will be seen that any device whereby one shutter can be made to answer for a number of different lenses will be of benefit to the photographer vReferring now to the drawings A denotes a in general a'cainera having the front board B remova-bly secured to the front thereof, in the manner shown in the drawing. The front board B is provided with anppening Cu On the rear side of the openlng is a,

shutter D arranged to be operated by a pneumatic means consisting of the tube E and a bulb (not shown), in the usual manner;' The shutter D is attached to the rear side of the front plate B and in the ordinary construction the lens F is mounted in the ,opening O in the front board of the camera.

Instead of mounting the lens in the openinmof the front board B, I provide a cirin the opening H provided for the purpose. The circular plateG is beveled at its outer edge as shown at g and is arranged to lie flat against the forward side of the-front plate B with its opening H registering with or ccntrall disposed in relation to the opening C. T e size of the opening H in the supporting plate G depends of-course' on the size of the lens to be'used.-

In order to retain thesupporting plate G in position as Well as to center the same I "have provided the screw-eyes J When the supporting plate is placed next to the front plate "the screw-eyes J are turned in the po-' 'sition indicated 1n.Fig.'3. The screw-eyes are so located that they willjust permit'the' supporting plate to enterbetweenthem and when they are turned into the position shown -in Fig. l, the edges of the eyes engage the pivoted surface 9 of the support thereby holding the latter together with its lenses securely upon the front plate. By making a number of these supporting plates 'and mounting lenses of various sizes in them I may use a single shutter, provided this shutter is large enough to accommodate the largest sized lens.

the opening may be" regulated and with this type of-shutter the opening should be regu;

lated accordingto the size of the lens used,

but in most cases it will not be necessary since it suflicient to provide a shutter 0 ena ing sufiicient'to accommodate the lens 0 the largest diameter. I

It will thus be seen that I have provided a device which is capable of permittlng the attachment of lenses of different size without the removal of the front board or the necessity of using more than one shutter.

I am aware that other forms of the inven- In some forms of shutters 2 eezeee' tion based upon the same general idea might opening adapted to register with the open be made but 1 consider as my own and wish ing of said front plate, a lens rnounted on to claim all such modifications as fairly fall said supporting plate'tlnd fastening devices within the spirit and the scope of the carried by said front plate arranged to en- 5 invention. gage the outer edge of said supporting plate 1.5

I claim for centering and fastening the same. Ina camera, a box provided with a front ARTHUR L. RICHARDSON.

plate, having an. opening, a shutter carried Witnesses: by said'front plate on the rear side thereof, a G; N. HARsH,

10 circular supporting plate provided with an C. M. CLINGMAN. 

